Study Desk

He ^(C1)turned their heart to hate His people, To ^(C2)deal cunningly with His servants.

He ^(C1)sent His servant Moses, And ^(C2)Aaron, whom He had chosen.

They ^(F1)(C1)performed His wondrous acts among them, And miracles in the land of Ham.

He ^(C1)sent darkness and made it dark; And they did not ^(C2)rebel against His words.

He ^(C1)turned their waters into blood, And caused their fish to die.

Their land swarmed with ^(C1)frogs Even in the ^(C2)chambers of their kings.

He spoke, and a ^(C1)swarm of flies And ^(C2)gnats invaded all their territory.

He ^(F1)gave them ^(C1)hail for rain, And flaming fire in their land.

He also ^(C1)struck their vines and their fig trees, And smashed the trees of their territory.

He spoke, and ^(C1)locusts came, And creeping locusts, beyond number,

And they ate all the vegetation in their land, And ate the fruit of their ground.

He also ^(C1)fatally struck all the firstborn in their land, The ^(C2)first fruits of all their vigor.

Then He brought ^(F1)the Israelites out with ^(C1)silver and gold, And among His tribes there was not one who stumbled.

Egypt was ^(C1)glad when they departed, For the ^(C2)dread of them had fallen upon ^(F1)the Egyptians.

He spread out a ^(C1)cloud as a ^(F1)covering, And ^(C2)fire to illumine by night.

^(F1)They ^(C1)asked, and He brought ^(C2)quail, And satisfied them with the ^(F2)(C3)bread of heaven.

He opened the ^(F1)rock and ^(C1)water flowed out; ^(F2)It ran in the dry places like a river.

For He ^(C1)remembered His holy word With His servant Abraham;

And He led out His people with joy, His chosen ones with a joyful ^(C1)shout.

He also ^(C1)gave them the lands of the ^(F1)nations, So that they ^(C2)might take possession of the fruit of the peoples' labor,

And that they might ^(C1)keep His statutes And comply with His laws; ^(F1)Praise ^(F2)the LORD!

^(F1)Praise ^(F2)the LORD! Oh ^(C1)give thanks to the LORD, for He ^(C2)is good; For ^(C3)His mercy is everlasting.

Who can speak of the ^(C1)mighty deeds of the LORD, Or can proclaim all His praise?

How blessed are those who maintain ^(F1)justice, ^(F2)Who ^(C1)practice righteousness at all times!

Remember me, LORD, in Your ^(C1)favor ^(F1)toward Your people. Visit me with Your salvation,

So that I may see the ^(C1)prosperity of Your chosen ones, That I may ^(C2)rejoice in the joy of Your nation, That I may ^(C3)boast with Your ^(F1)inheritance.

^(C1)We have sinned ^(F1)(C2)like our fathers, We have gone astray, we have behaved wickedly.

Our fathers in Egypt did not understand Your ^(F1)wonders; They ^(C1)did not remember ^(F2)Your abundant kindnesses, But ^(C2)rebelled by the sea, at the ^(F3)Red Sea.

Nevertheless He saved them ^(C1)for the sake of His name, So that He might ^(C2)make His power known.

So He ^(C1)rebuked the ^(F1)Red Sea and it ^(C2)dried up, And He ^(C3)led them through the mighty waters, as through the wilderness.

So He ^(C1)saved them from the ^(F1)hand of one who hated them, And ^(C2)redeemed them from the ^(F1)hand of the enemy.

^(C1)The waters covered their adversaries; Not one of them was left.

Then they ^(C1)believed His words; They ^(C2)sang His praise.

They quickly ^(C1)forgot His works; They ^(C2)did not wait for His plan,

But ^(C1)became lustfully greedy in the wilderness, And ^(C2)put God to the test in the desert.

So He ^(C1)gave them their request, But ^(C2)sent a ^(F1)wasting disease among them.

When they became ^(C1)envious of Moses in the camp, And of Aaron, the holy one of the LORD,

The ^(C1)earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, And engulfed the ^(F1)company of Abiram.

And a ^(C1)fire blazed up in their ^(F1)company; The flame consumed the wicked.

They ^(C1)made a calf in Horeb, And worshiped a cast metal image.

So they ^(C1)exchanged their glory For the image of an ox that eats grass.

They ^(C1)forgot God their Savior, Who had done ^(C2)great things in Egypt,

^(F1)(C1)Wonders in the land of Ham, And awesome things by the ^(F2)Red Sea.

Therefore ^(C1)He said that He would destroy them, If ^(C2)Moses, His chosen one, had not stood in the gap before Him, To turn away His wrath from destroying them.

Then they ^(C1)rejected the ^(C2)pleasant land; They ^(C3)did not believe His word,

But ^(C1)grumbled in their tents; They did not listen to the voice of the LORD.

Therefore He ^(F1)(C1)swore to them That He would have them fall in the wilderness,

And that He would ^(C1)bring down their ^(F1)descendants among the nations, And ^(C2)scatter them in the lands.

They also ^(C1)followed ^(F1)Baal-peor, And ate ^(C2)sacrifices offered to the dead.

So they ^(C1)provoked Him to anger with their deeds, And a plague broke out among them.

Then Phinehas ^(C1)stood up and ^(F1)intervened, And so the ^(C2)plague was brought to a halt.

And it was ^(C1)credited to him as righteousness, To all generations forever.

They also ^(C1)provoked Him to wrath at the waters of ^(F1)Meribah, So that it ^(C2)went badly for Moses on their account.

Because they ^(C1)were rebellious against ^(F1)His Spirit, He spoke rashly with his lips.